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Can GSU beat App?

At the beginning of the season, I would have said no. Appalachian State is a team that mirrored Georgia Southern’s one-time domination of I-AA football and took it a step farther with three straight national championships.

The Mountaineers still have Armanti Edwards, the quarterback who engineered I-AA’s greatest win ever when ASU shocked Michigan.

But this season, Appalachian seems a bit mortal. It needed overtime to beat The Citadel -- the team that just lost to Western Carolina – and rallied from 14 points back to beat Wofford.

The Eagles are coming off an easier than expected win over surprising Chattanooga.

The Mountaineers have superior talent, but what Southern lacks in talent it makes up with effort.

ASU beat GSU in overtime three years ago. The Eagles won by a field goal in Boone the next year.

Last year, ASU won by one point.

The teams meet again Saturday and the winner will have the inside track on at least a top-two finish in the Southern Conference.

Maybe it’s GSU’s turn in the highly competitive series. At the beginning of the season, I wouldn’t have thought so.